About the Book
English summary: Subjects treated or mistreated: culture, marriage, eroticism, todays novel, hospitals, the avant-garde, sports, drugs, youths, health policy, womens bodies, Disneyland, the virtuous new world, contemporary artists, Santa Claus, Catholicism, the Revolutions Bicentennial, Y2K festivities, pacifism, television, "Prepared" Cub Scouts, Mitterrand, etc. Writers discussed: Procopius, Rabelais, Swift, Beaumarchais, Sade, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola and Bloy. Literary genres practiced: Analysis, polemic, conference, chronicle, study of mores, poem, apologue, etc. Writing period: From 1978 to the present. Number of essays: Forty-five. General opinions: 1) Eliminating the last possibility of a negative utterance 2) Eradicating the critical mind 3) Extinguishing the real 4) Making society more festive 5) Destroying literary autonomy. Agenda: We will make you hate the year 3000. French description: Sujets traites ou maltraites: la culture, le mariage, l'erotisme, le roman aujourd'hui, l'hopital, les avant-gardes, le sport, les drogues, les jeunes, la politique de la sante, les corps feminins, Disneyland, le nouveau monde vertueux, les artistes contemporains, le Pere Noel, le catholicisme, le Bicentenaire de la Revolution, les festivites de l'an 2000, le pacifisme, la television, les Louveteaux de la Vigilance, Mitterrand, etc. Ecrivains abordes: Procope, Rabelais, Swift, Beaumarchais, Sade, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Zola, Bloy. Genres pratiques: analyse, polemique, conference, chronique, etude de moeurs, poeme, apologue, etc. Periode de composition: de 1978 a nos jours. Nombre d'essais: quarante-cinq. Constatations generales: 1) effacement des dernieres possibilites d'enonciation du negatif 2) eradication de l'esprit critique 3) disparition du reel 4) festivisation de la societe 5) destruction de l'autonomie de la litterature. Programme: nous allons vous faire detester l'an 3000.
